Todd R. Weiss

Google is again at work trying to make it easier for users to find the information they are looking for, whether it is online in a Google Search or right in their Gmail in-boxes. For the second time since August, Google has unveiled a new “field trial” to let users try out a new service—the […]

Google could be hit with an antitrust case in the closing months of this year by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as the government continues to probe the company’s operating practices in its search business. Four of the FTC’s commissioners “have become convinced after more than a year of investigation that Google illegally used […]

Leaked images of Google’s Maps App for iOS 6 have been posted by a San Francisco-based apps developer who claims that the images show some of the planned features of the hotly awaited Maps App for Apple’s latest mobile device operating system. “Oh boy! Here we go,” developer Ben Guild wrote in an Oct. 14 […]

Samsung and Apple continue to battle in court over patent-infringement claims, but Samsung has scored at least a notable victory involving its aging Galaxy Nexus smartphones. In a decision handed down Oct. 11, a panel of three federal appeals court judges overturned a preliminary injunction awarded to Apple in August that blocked Samsung’s sales of […]

The Firefox 16 Web browser is again available for downloads and installation, less than 24 hours after Mozilla removed the latest Firefox browser from its downloads page due to the discovery of a serious security flaw Oct. 10. The problem that caused Mozilla to pull Firefox 16 back from its distribution and update channels is […]

In late September, Google Docs announced plans to stop allowing users to save and export their Google Docs-created files using older 1997 to 2003 Microsoft Office file formats as of Oct. 1. But those plans have now been delayed until Jan. 31, 2013 due to complaints from users that they weren’t given enough time to […]

Mozilla’s new Firefox 16 Web browser was abruptly removed from the company’s downloads page on Oct. 10 after a serious security vulnerability was discovered a day after its release. The download removal was announced by Michael Coates, director of security assurance for Mozilla, in a post on the Mozilla Security Blog. “Mozilla is aware of […]

Google’s Street View image collection is again expanding its coverage of the world, starting with beautiful and detailed new photographic images of faraway and exotic locales, including Singapore, Taiwan and Macau. The new images make up the largest one-time update so far for Street View, which now doubles the size of the collection and updates […]

Google is unveiling two new enterprise search appliances that will help businesses find needed information more easily amid the huge stores of data that businesses create. The new Google Search Appliance Version 7.0 (GSA 7.0) boxes are the latest in a line of enterprise search products that Google has been offering for more than 10 […]

Jono Bacon, the community manager for Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux, believes in open-source software, but even more, he believes in the ability of open-source communities to help move code forward to drive success for enterprises. By getting their developers more involved in open-source communities, Bacon believes that enterprises will reap far more than they sow by […]

Google is working closely with Samsung to build and market a 10.1-inch, high-end Android Nexus tablet that will be co-branded and sold to consumers, according to published reports. “The 10.1-inch tablet will boast a pixel density that is higher than Apple’s third-generation iPad,” Richard Shim, an analyst at NPD DisplaySearch, told CNET in an Oct. […]

SpaceX’s CRS-1 cargo resupply spacecraft, loaded with fresh materials for astronauts in the International Space Station high above Earth, got off to a successful start Oct. 7 as the vehicle launched from Florida and headed for an Oct. 10 rendezvous with its destination. “We are right where we need to be at this stage in […]